"Linus Torvalds doesn't want to change the Linux kernel's software license, and he said so again last week. For good measure this time, he threw in some inflammatory remarks. "I literally feel," wrote Torvalds, "that we do not, as software developers, have the moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God." Since the crusades were a foreign adventure responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, that's not the most diplomatic response, and FSF counsel Eben Moglen refused to be drawn into retaliation when we contacted him for comment."

The guy is all heat, no light, and he serves the Register's business model by getting lots of people to link to and argue about his content-free flames.

If Linus doesn't accept GPLv3, then he will continue to use GPLv2. However, others are likely to dual-license their code (GPLv2 + GPLv3), and because other free software licenses (Apache, IBM) will be compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2. The world will not end.